Kemi Badenoch, Diplomatic Jabs and the Politics of Insult
Mrs. Kemi Badenoch, the UK Conservative Party’s prime ministerial hopeful, must rue the day her proud parents sent her back to Nigeria. Judging from her frequent and subtle expressions of regret, that “dark chapter” of her life must be the reason she is both black in skin and, by association, in her own eyes. I don’t begrudge Madam Badenoch her good fortune of returning early enough to the UK from this “shithole” where she allegedly wielded machetes in a girls’ school like an African village warrior, or where she had to scrub toilets without running water. If she must exaggerate her Nigerian experiences to become Prime Minister, by all means, let her fulminate. It would be good to see her at Number 10, Downing Street. Perhaps as PM she’ll send bulldozers to flatten this “heap of a country” from where […]